Leaving Athens

Suitcases out at 7:15 AM.  Breakfast, check-out of the hotel, and leave on the bus at 8:00 AM.  It was early Saturday morning so the city was quiet.  We visited the Museum of the Acropolis --a new museum (2 years old) at the foot of the hill below the Acropolis. The museum was built on pillars set among ruins that are being excavated. The museum floor is glass so you can look down and see the excavation. It has many ruins (pottery, statues, columns, etc) from the Acropolis buildings.  A statue might be mostly original with a head that was actually a copy because the original of the head is in the Vatican museum (or the British museum or some other museum). Things like that make you understand why there are bad feelings between countries that just don't go away.  After a couple hours, we drove down the coast for an hour.  Visited Sounion which was the temple of Poseidon.  Then we drove up the coast to a seafood restaurant where we enjoyed lunch.  Had salad, bread, cucumber/garlic dip, deep fried zucchini, fried calamari, fried fish, potatoes, watermelon, coffee, etc.  Drove a half hour to the airport and flew to Crete.  When we arrived here, we found out that the bus was dropping us by the waterfront and we had to hoof it up hill with our luggage.  Fortunately all four of us had small bags and are fleet of foot. 
About the internet---the first night I blogged from the hotel, the next time from a cafe, the next time from the same cafe, but the blog didn't post (did that tonight), and tonight I am in the lobby of the hotel and wi-fi is free.  What a treat.